Outside the Beltway

A contrast in styles.

Journalism is terrible except when compared to the alternatives.

Reading disparate polling numbers critically.

Science and insanity don’t mix.

Tip O’Neil’s famous saying hasn’t been true in a long, long time.

A piece in The Atlantic inspires thoughts.

There is a lot of anger out there.

Late-breaking news may not matter that much anymore.

The President has lost his patience with the unvaccinated.

This time in the CA recall.

As the pandemic’s effects continue to worsen in Florida, DeSantis continues to play the worst kind of politics.

Sound decisions require sound reporting.

They’ve got a lot of gall blaming Biden for this mess.

The right questions are: 1) why do some some on the right like him, and 2) should this concern us all?

Whataboutism about a visit to Whataburger (and other tales of obfuscation).

Some recent news items that add to concern about American democracy.

The President hit all the right notes.

An emotional day set the tone for the investigation.

Another R/D cleavage?

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

It’s not getting any better, folks.

A new career and a pending art sale.

The rate at which Americans are getting COVID shots is slowing rapidly.

Thinking about party evolution and behavior going into 2022.

Some people claim there’s a woman to blame.

A big shoe has dropped.

Public health shouldn’t be made into a partisan issue.

Critical race theory rears its ugly head yet again.

Ron DeSantis and friends are afraid of higher education.

A pandemic and the rise of Zoom meetings unleashed an academic theory into the wild.

Vaccination is voluntary but refusal is not without consequence.

Or, you know, not.

And linkages to broader US politics.

Well, nothing of course.

The piling on continues.

Speaker Pelosi and House Republicans are waging separate battles with science.

The GOP is actually pretty healthy at the moment, despite some public rhetoric to the contrary.

The latest bogey man is likely not well understood.

Republicans are more partisan—and distrustful of government—than Democrats.

Republicans who admit Joe Biden won the election fair and square are being driven from the party.

The latest variant of the “No Justice, No Peace” threat is unhelpful.

No, Colorado’s voting regulations are not roughly the same as Georgia’s.

There’s no voting in baseball.

A loon wolf terrorist who followed Louis Farrakhan was responsible.

Competing analogies and externalities.

We tend to focus on the wrong qualities in our early assessments.

Foolish lies are for foolish liars.

A story that is both unserious and yet emblematic of our age in a serious way.

A third of Americans are unsure they want the life-saving COVID shots.